Articles relating to: Jo Dearden
Lockdown Poetry: Julie Hesmondhalgh reads Two Metres Apart by Jo Dearden
Lancashire actress (and Northern Soul favourite) Julie Hesmondhalgh has recorded a poem in a bid to raise awareness and funds for Accrington-based charity, Maundy Relief.
Read the full story..You know you’re Up North when…
- Someone calls you ‘luv’ and you don’t sue them for sexual harassment.
Facial Attraction – a beard-based dating app (yes, really)
Transport yourself back through the mists of time. Way, way back, to October 2014, and picture this scene.
Read the full story..Sing-a-long-a-Frozen at The Lowry, Salford
It all started with the film Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory. When my six-year-old self saw it for the first time I couldn’t get over the fact that singing was part of the story. Coming from a tone-deaf family, it seemed crazy…but I loved it.
Read the full story..Review: Hansel And Gretel at Bury Met
Fairytales are everywhere at the moment – not that they’ve been away – but we’ve become rather obsessed of late.
Read the full story..Kay Mellor at the Manchester Literature Festival
Kay Mellor is one of the UK’s most prolific and successful TV dramatists.
Read the full story..Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
Originally produced as an afternoon play for Radio 4, Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster intersperses Sylvia Lancaster’s verbatim recollections of her murdered daughter Sophie with the spellbinding poems of Simon Armitage
Read the full story..Ta’ra Quay Street, Hello MediaCity: Coronation Street moves house
Many, many years ago the 14-year-old me set off on an adventure with three friends. It was the first time we’d been allowed to go to Manchester on our own.
Read the full story..By The People, For The People: The Whitaker
Where can you see a tiger and python locked in a terrifying embrace, a baby African elephant and a genuine shrunken head? At The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery in Rawtenstall in the heart of the Rossendale Valley.
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